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We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …
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The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …
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This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general … equality of wage growth and productivity growth is a condition for constant employment. …-equilibrium model with endogenous productivity growth. For real wage growth above laissez-faire levels, we obtain steady …
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labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … employment of low earners can explain 80% of the rise in relative female wages. There is no evidence that reduction in child care …
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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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likely to be self-employed than employed as a wage earner. Furthermore, these recent EU8 immigrants earn less conditional on …
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … counterveiling fall in reservation wages, leaving the present value of wage costs unchanged. Our analysis contradicts this … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired …
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … markets. The paper then looks at the wage formation process including institutional settings and income policies, active and … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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. The new jobs created by the MNCs were found in activities with relatively high productivity and wages. This suggests that …
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